University of Tennessee, Knoxville TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange Other Library Materials (Newsletters, Reports, Library Development Review Etc.) 1-1-2002 The Library Development Review 2001-02 University of Tennessee Libraries Follow this and additional works at: https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_libdevel Part of the Arts and Humanities Commons Recommended Citation Lloyd, James B and Clark, Erica (eds). The Library Development Review. Knoxville: University of Tennessee, 2001/2002. This Review is brought to you for free and open access by the Other Library Materials (Newsletters, Reports, Etc.) at TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange. It has been accepted for inclusion in Library Development Review by an authorized administrator of TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange. For more information, please contact [email protected]. /JtlJliJ/1/1 An architect's conception of Hoskins Library, home of Special Collections, done circa 1931 . (From Special Collection's newly redone website, www.lib.edu/slJColl.) It is my great pleasure to report that the people who use In this issue of the Development Review we celebrate the University Libraries gave the library high marks for the the people who support the University Libraries as well as quality of library service in a recent national survey. It is a the collections and innovations they make possible. Just as notable achievement that the Libraries were rated equal to or no University can hope to be great without an excellent even better than larger libraries that enjoy much higher levels library-no library can rise to excellence without the of funding. active and continuing support of staff, students, faculty, and One area that students and scholars would like to see private citizens all working together to advance our library strengthened is the breadth and depth of the Libraries' col­ to greater heights. Your past and future support is deeply lections. This can only be achieved with a combination of appreciated by all UT students and faculty. private and public support to acquire a wide range of books, databases, manuscripts, and journals. You can help us reach a Barbara 1. Dewey higher margin of excellence through gifts of all sizes. Dean of the University Libraries On the Cover "Agaric Amethyste Fig. l: Agaric Scarlatin Fig. II ," from lean Ba/Jtiste Francois Bulliard, Herbier de la France, Paris; A.l. Dugour & Durand, 1781-1793, volume 8, plate 570; see article on p. 3.) An herbal contains the names and descriptions of plants and their medicinal pro/)erties. Bulliard, a Parisian physician, drew, engraved, and printed the 600 plates in these volumes himself using three tinted plates over an engraved outline to /)roduce what is considered to be one of the most beautiful of eighteenth century botanical works. 2001-02 Edited by James B. Lloyd Associate Editor Erica Clark 2 A Message from Sandra Williams 3 An Eighteenth Century French Botanical Jewel, with a Gracenote on Mushrooms By Ronald H. Petersen 5 More Digispeak: The DLC at UTK By James B. Lloyd 7 BloOne, with Love, from UT Graduate Students By Linda L. Ph ill ips 8 Baker Scholar Gives Back By Erica C lark 9 A Valley so Wide, a River so Deep, a Paper Trail so Long: TVA Research Collections in the Special Collections Library By Aaron D. Purcell 12 The Center for Children's and Young Adult Literature: A Partnership for Literacy By Kenneth Wise 13 The Tennessee Newspaper Proiect: Stories from the Field By Lori Riverstone 14 Making a Gift During Difficult Times By Erica C lark 15 Library Friends Year in Review By Tamara ]. Miller 17 Transforming the Classroom: The Tennessee Documentary History Proiect By Debra Roney and Lesli Zimmerman 20 Lindsay Young Endowment Benefits Library's Humanities Collection By Molly Royse 21 Private Dollars, Public Treasures 21 Investing in the Future 21 Library Endowments 22 Those Honored 22 Those Memorialized 22 The Legacy Society 22 Library Friends A MESSAGE FROM SANDRA WILLIAMS It is my privilege to be part of a true circle of friends dedicated to the University of Tennessee libraries. The library Friends are people from many backgrounds who share an appreciation of the libraries' role in higher education and the cultural life of the region. Our goal this year is to expand our circle of friends. We hope that each of you will invite a colleague, friend, or neighbor to make an annual gift to the UT libraries and become a library Friend. One of the primary purposes of the library Library Friends Chair Sandra Williams Friends group is to stimulate private support of the libraries. Many of the dynamic and innovative programs in our excellent library are supported with funding from the library Friends. As a friend of the UT libraries, you receive invitations to the libraries' public programs and lectures, including the Dr. and Mrs. A. H . Lancaster library Friends Lecture Series. Last year we saw an upsurge in attendance at events sponsored by the library Friends. I hope you will be able to attend at least one event this year and see firsthand how the libraries serve as a cultural resource for the community. My own service as the chair of the library Friends has been a wonderful and enriching experience. I have had the opportunity to get to know many dedicated librarians, faculty, students, and citizens who care deeply about the library. Most importantly, I-like all library Friends members-have the satisfaction of directly assisting the libraries in enriching scholarship and research at the University of Tennessee. ~a/~~ Sandra Williams, Chair of the library Friends 2 AN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY PLANTF. MRlHCINALR l)E T.A FHANCE FRENCH BOTANICAL JEWEL, WITH A GRACENOTE ON MUSHROOMS By RONALD H. PETERSEN PROFESSOR OF BOTANY Some months ago Ron Petersen alerted us to the possibility of acquiring Bulliard's Herbal de la France from book dealer Raymond Sutton .{ in Williamsburg Kentucky. Sutton, it turned out, had a number of rare natural history and travel books on consignment, and with the assistance of Linda Phillips, head of Collection Development and Management, and gifts from library friends, we were successful in adding the volumes described by Professor Petersen in the following article. In a land of excesses, in a social stratum of opulence, in a time of noblesse oblige, Jean Baptiste Francois Bulliard 0752-1793) with his passion for French birds must have appeared as just another coddled idiosyncratic. He was a man of leisure whose main occupation was hunt­ ing and shooting. His book was a treatise on "all the tricks that can be used to catch the birds of France." Bulliard's subsequent efforts centered on botany. In the late 18th century, France could claim a gigantic nobility, estimated at nearly 1.5 percent of the total population. This social rank, of course, comprised both families of enormous wealth and power as well as impecunious folk whose only shred of pride was a heritable title. Without I . , . L:E ;t'0LYPOPE FO"FOl:IlH MALE Ft.."l'. .,. lo1ypodlUlll /lhx 1na,'i I •. I...\./~ '''''YI'',lr7.,· ,.t.rl. tJ"I'YPUlli".l'llllJllUl.lubnn/~C('url'l47drdmW'lujJol'/ohl.P.U('?/tCirlu)lL/ doubt, the center of culture and ostenta­ ptU'I1~; l"fl,jlLi.D.tlr« au,;"!: .. l"'~ (\I'll1ll1fU"r..~. ,. d'wu! I'(U"Vle l{tjlll'1lU' ,'di.'vt'llta illlllLU!ew·de tkU~l'Pl'et/, ou t'nUV"fJ1l b JlI'rUl.tUvfiutlrN aOlli la ('o'it! m'!l~lU't' (vi JV"I'f,·",,·,u dil';'t¥ (On ,,'l/ulrrM l'JtN.t'W"t"dr/U,.Utv.N" !rt7uUtwt ';mTlM"nhY'U'Yl"'''~filiole.r obluJt'.J', tlcnlre., c(- l'on ~ tion revolved around Paris and -J1tliPl.b!.,... lUi du.,. iiI.' /.V.,•./vlw/"·", Ult I 'f'/U'OIW '(-' de pt'il.'u ptlYlu-r.r cU'J<OIldiJ. compfW't!;' ,feptu.n.i!-IU·'" cup.nJu a druJ> valv("..d\ l'UI'd ¢u~ Versailles, the former with its Jardin du alb qlll.·~~t-,.elll'c..,('n"';J;g- .4.. -:.-/~:1.t..1.fi#.I __1al"<".u",;II" "''''·IVn-!,... (<tAft /J - "?'7w-,,.wor~d'un.t:'fo.Jl~ "(',,~I<IIr""LJUWk.. ,. Io"pu: C. ~fD1Lo-"'''_ ilU1~ "'~}'ar Roi, the latter with the Trianon Garden, ,t.........,.,...., f""/wr':I'';''~ ;':"'·~I;';Y/~"4. _..N """i:A9' n !.t ''lh,.j/L'aJ.tp,.~ """" /V'QY#UL.: 'tAP' JIJ _lgptmu.dDV"(M~ rw/w.1r ti~"t1UT' pUxf ~ tJlI rt;"t/.,rt'" .1''' ""11'1;''' t'(Jmm" un Utili apr,.,?,;:un "'l I"P.comllUlllnp l'uJ't'{"" IImu l'4,ydrop1toou:. the pride of Marie Antoinette. It was no accident, therefore, that Bulliard's botanical labor first produced Flora "Polypodium Filix," from Herbier de la France. (Paris: A.). Dugour & Durand, 1781­ Parisiensis (1776-1783), which described 1793, volume 4, plate 183.) and illustrated 640 plants. As was the practice, the six volumes were sold by their medicinal uses." This sumptuous set and it is this compendium that now subscription, and we may assume that of quarto plates in full color was dribbled happily resides in the Special Collections the upper crust of society was obliged to out over a dozen years (1781-1793), of the University Library. buy (whether they could afford it or not), both before and after Bulliard's demise. The plates for Flora Parisiensis (1776-) if only to be among those known to Embedded within Herbier were chapters were engraved and printed in black and be subscribers. on the known and suspected poisonous white, then hand watercolored, usually Bulliard's magnum opus, however, plants, the mushrooms of France, and a by an assembly line of women around a was an expansion of Flora Parisiensis to dictionary of botanical terms.